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Suparna Chaudhry @sch-ir.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you work on or care about global governance, human rights, political violence, NGO survival and adaptation, international development, and civil society resilience, I'd be delighted if you took a look. Please reach out if you'd like to schedule a book talk! 5/

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Suparna Chaudhry @sch-ir.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The book reveals that, paradoxically, the very successes of transnational advocacy networks in pressuring governments to reform and improve their human rights records incentivized more sophisticated tools of repression. 4/

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Suparna Chaudhry @sch-ir.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I document the rise in non-violent or administrative or bureaucratic forms of crackdown which allow states to maintain democratic facades while systematically dismantling infrastructures of accountability. 3/

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Suparna Chaudhry @sch-ir.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Civil Societies, Uncivil States examines why governments around the world have turned against the nongovernmental organizations they once welcomed—and how they choose their methods of repression. 2/

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is a good example of something that is entirely political (the government dislikes higher ed and foreign people) and has large economic impacts but will get less attention than "woke one" from our pundit class.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/07/2026

Preventing explosive diarrhea was apparently too DEI for the DOGE crew

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

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Gino Pauselli @ginopauselli.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Nominations for the best ILAW paper presented at the last ISA meeting are open until July 30! Please consider nominating a paper (yours or someone else's). I'm chairing the award committee. More information about the award and nomination process can be found here: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

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Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Hi. We're in the Age of Diarrhea. I'm a global health expert on helping children survive diarrhea. Here's what to do if you might have picked up cyclospora. 🧵 1. Call your primary care if possible. 2. Take oral rehydration therapy, which isn't just drinking fluids. 1/

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

One minute these babies are fine. The next they're seizing, or vomiting blood, or not waking from a nap, or not breathing. I spoke with more than a dozen doctors who have seen the consequences of more parents declining the routine vitamin K shot for their newborns. This is what it looks like.

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As Parents Reject Vitamin K Shots, Some Babies Develop Devastating Bleeding

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/07/2026

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.

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World Politics @worldpolitics.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Encode/Decode: Allison Carnegie, @rickyclark.bsky.social, @noahzucker.com use new #data to prove their theory that #populist #leadership helps to explain whether a state provides accurate information to #IOs. #anti-elitism #science #environment #PublicHealth doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

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Matt Graham @mattgraham.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Insightful new-ish article journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sumitra Badrinathan @sumitra.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

lots of discussion on how this will affect tech jobs, but once again this applies to academia also every professor you know on a visa will now have to leave the US for a green card, sometimes for multiple years. many will give up in the process. universities may not give them back their jobs.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/05/2026

BREAKING: Despite four votes of No Confidence, the President & Board of Portland State University have proceeded to balance the budget on the backs of students, faculty, & staff & announce the deepest cuts in the history of the university. @psuaaup.bsky.social 👇

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

JPMORGAN: “.. In 2025, US farm bankruptcies rose by ~50% y/y due in part to tariffs raising the cost of steel, equipment and herbicide inputs, tariff retaliation which reduced export markets, and immigration policy reducing the supply of undocumented farm labor.” 👀

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Bridging The Gap @bridgingthegap.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Applications for our 2026 New Era Workshop (NEW) are still open through May 3! NEW will be held September 24-26, 2026 in Denver. If you know any PhD students in international affairs and related disciplines who might be interested, please pass along.

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NEW — Bridging the Gap

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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Would love to send this post back in time to ~2015 and see how people would explain the series of events leading up to it.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health.

When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.”

Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

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Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book

Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

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Prof. Carl LeVan @democracyprofdc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Really important findings here: treating US foreign aid collapse as an exogenous shock, tests across 44 countries show a 12% increase in conflict last year among the more aid dependent countries. Read with research on: health impact, corruption, etc. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Aid, Interrupted: Conflict Dynamics Following the USAID Suspension in Africa

Foreign aid withdrawal may put the political stability of aid-dependent states at risk, yet short-term conflict responses to donor-side aid disruptions remain p

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The University of Michigan has been measuring consumer sentiment since 1952. We just got the first Iran-afflicted measure for April, and it's at the lowest level ever recorded.

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Jeremy Peterman𓅪 @jeremypeterman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

"ICE OUT" banners seen in the Timbers Army during the National Anthem. #RCTID

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Bridging The Gap @bridgingthegap.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Applications for our 2026 New Era Workshop (NEW) for PhD students are now live! Apps close May 3rd at 11:59pm MT. NEW will be held Sept 24-26, 2026 at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs. For more information and to apply, visit our website

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NEW — Bridging the Gap

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I love the form the NYTimes “bothsidesism” takes in this article. On one hand, professors worry that something they or a student says might put them on the radar of authorities and then deported. On the other hand, I don’t have to feel imaginary pressure to say “menstruating persons” anymore!

Christopher Kutz, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said he is self-censoring to protect students, particularly those in the United States on visas. He said he worried that they might write or say something that could end up being turned against them.
"I'm not going to change what I say, but I will try to make sure the assignments don't invite students into making statements that could get them in trouble," said Professor Kutz, whose school has been a particular focus of the Trump administration.

"You just don't know whether they are going to report you to someone, or are they recording you," said Dr. Smith, who added that she felt she had to "change the way I relate to my students."
"I value integrity and my authenticity and my openness and my honesty, and I feel myself not being that way with them, which I hate because that is what students value: a professor they can ask the hard questions of," she said.
One part of her calculation last year, Dr.
Smith said, was her status as a permanent resident, not a citizen, of the United States.

She no longer feels that way with Mr.
Trump in power. She said she perceived less pressure to use terms like "menstruating persons" and that she sensed many students felt the same. The result, she said, was an ebbing of "identity tribes" among students and more open discussion.
"My students are no longer circumscribed in their beliefs, opinions, analyses by identity categories that people are ascribing to them," Dr. Trisko Darden said.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Nothing says “we are liberating you from a bad regime to give you a better life” like bombing desalination plants and oil refineries

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her. Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

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No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

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Suparna Chaudhry @sch-ir.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Very glad that I'm not teaching I-Law this semester, my condolences

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/02/2026

After a US-Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, rescuers dug through the rubble for survivors. The death toll is still rising, with more than 80 confirmed dead so far.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”

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AFT-Oregon @aft-oregon.org · 01/02/2026

What it's like to be tear gassed in a crowd by ICE, at the nonviolent Portland Labor Against ICE rally. There were children in the march.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A mother and their 15 year old describe getting gassed and seeing young children in pain. #Portland #ICEOut #Pretti

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

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Suparna Chaudhry @sch-ir.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Can confirm this weird line of argument is also going on in local mom groups on FB (in an extremely blue city!) and I'm convinced it's bots

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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This would be disastrously bad for universities in Florida and the state as a whole. The Board is essentially handpicked by DeSantis so the odds of this passing are high. As the article notes, The proposal also forbids discrimination based on national origin, which is some cognitive dissonance.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

“…despite a judge ordering the toddler’s release.”

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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 23/01/2026

My father is a polio survivor. I’ve seen firsthand the lifelong damage it inflicts. Vaccines have all but eradicated these diseases. WE SOLVED THIS PROBLEM. This administration’s devotion to dangerous ideology over science will only cause more Americans to suffer.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

man. not just the horror of this, but also the little girl immediately thinking of her friends.

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